Rita Briansky

Rita Briansky (25 July 1925 – 24 April 2025) was a Polish-born Canadian painter and printmaker. Briansky was associated with the Jewish Painters of Montreal.

Early life Briansky was born in Grajewo, Poland on 25 July 1925. She emigrated to Ontario, Canada with her mother and two sisters in 1929. The year they arrived, the family moved to Ansonville in northern Ontario, then Val d'Or, Quebec in 1939, and then to Montreal in 1941.

Career Briansky had a wide range of work: paintings, drawings, watercolours, pastels and prints. She held solo shows at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1957, 1962); and the Glenhyrst Arts Council, Brantford, Ontario (1965) (now the Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant) as well as many commercial galleries. Her group shows have included the Second International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan (1960–1961) and the United Nations, N.Y. (1965). In 1995, following travels in Poland to her birthplace and memorial sites, Briansky created the Kaddish Series, reflecting on the tragedy of the Holocaust. the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Cape Breton University Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery,

For more than 45 years, she worked as a teacher, both of art history and studio art.